Drone “Hui” Farming! Songjiang New Farmers Show off Their “Technological Style”

The mystery of this “unmanned smart farm” lies in the efficient cloud platform built by Shanghai Mobile’s 5G private network and 5G Beidou high-precision positioning technology, agricultural basic data surveying and mapping modeling, and high-tech assistance in the digital transformation of agricultural equipment.

In the Punan area of Songjiang, the aging population in rural areas is high, and the characteristics of concentrated villagers living and small field planting urgently require further improvement in the level of refined agricultural production management. To this end, we have joined hands with the Songjiang District Agricultural Committee and Tushibao Agricultural Cooperative to build a 5g smart farm. We have used 5g agricultural special network, 5g edge computing, 5g Beidou high-precision positioning and many other new technologies to promote the integration of information technology and agricultural machinery, help the whole process of farming management and income to upgrade to “less people, no people” management, and promote the Digital transformation of rural farms in Shanghai. ” Zhu Chunhui, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Mobile Songjiang Branch, introduced that at Tushibao Farm, Shanghai Mobile has established a high-quality 5G agricultural special network and used China Mobile’s 5G Beidou high-precision positioning system to collect high-precision spatial data over rural roads in the field, establishing a digital underlying model to provide automatic map navigation support for agricultural machinery autonomous driving and drone spraying operations.

Since the entire project was put into operation, the agricultural production efficiency of the cooperative has significantly improved. Only the application of drone water and fertilizer can save 20%, and unmanned agricultural machinery operation greatly reduces the pressure of manpower shortage on the farm. “He Yangyang, the person in charge of Shanghai Tushibao Agricultural Professional Cooperative, told Komatsu.

The deep cooperation of this agricultural digital transformation can be traced back to four years ago. In 2018, He Yangyang, a post-90s generation, returned to his hometown to start his own business and became a new farmer. While exploring and trying to use drones to solve plant protection problems on his own farm, he innovated his ideas and, together with Shanghai Mobile Songjiang Branch and relevant research institutes, launched the construction of a 5g unmanned smart farm. “In the past, cooperatives relied too much on labor-intensive operation ecology, and agricultural production was very limited. Now, with the help of 5g technology, digital agriculture is developing from ‘knowing how to farm’ to ‘intelligent farming’, and the prospect is worth looking forward to.” He Yangyang said confidently.

Expanding the application scenarios of 5G digital intelligence in rural areas, driving more ‘new farmers’ like He Yangyang to join the countryside, and building modern agriculture has profound significance. “Zhu Chunhui said that in the future, Shanghai Mobile will continue to help farms create a” digital platform “, coordinate and manage farmers, farmland, and agricultural machinery equipment, and gradually form a vertically connected, horizontally connected, and comprehensive agricultural information management system, Set a leading benchmark for the automation and modernization of the agricultural industry.